...My Life Goals Each year in December I begin to think about ways I make the next year better, but I always end up finding myself in the same place. This year I decided to use a very organized and methodical process by identifying a list of goals I want to achieve in my life, creating a plan to follow, so I can be able to stay on target and meet those goals. From the list I created, I choose the three most important goals that will shape and change my life, a personal goal, an academic goal, and a professional goal. Being healthy is very important for me and for my family. I want to enjoy my life with my kids without any pain, illness and disease of any kind. I am 5ft 1 tall, and 143 pounds. My healthy weight should be 130 pounds, so for my personal goal I decided to lose 13 pounds in two months. As a student at Ashford University, my academic goal that I want to achieve is to complete my bachelor of accounting in 2 years, because getting a degree is the first and foremost way to become successful in life . The skills I anticipate on developing through my education in the university will be the team learning, time management, and the development of better organizational skills. The development of these skills will enable me to communicate more effectively and efficiently in the world of business, and be more productive citizen in this community. As for my professional goal in life, I want to have my accounting office in the 5 years. Accountant”Likes to work with data, numbers...
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...Running head: THE ADVANTAGES OF ME QUTTING SMOKING My goal to stop smoking Sarah E Fortenberry One main goal I have set for myself is to stop smoking. I have been a smoker since I was fifteen years old, and I find it unattractive and very nasty but yet it seems to calm me when I’m stressed, and it also has extremely bad consequences. For one I have a son and I want to be around him my whole life and if I continue smoking I could possibly develop cancer and live a short life and my son would not deserve that. I do not smoke at home or anywhere near my son or in my car, I only smoke at work but that’s still not an excuse that it is okay to me. In the following paragraphs I will provide information of three articles that I’ve read, one to understand more of why I do it, how to do it, and benefits to encourage doing it. The first article I selected is “Men, Women, and the Dangers of Smoking” and written by Dennis Thompson Jr. and medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH. The article explained to me that there is gender differences between why men and women smoke. I never knew that smoking could be defined by gender. For a man it explains that it keeps them going throughout the day, and for women it is mainly used to decrease stress. I do agree for me that is does decrease stress because I only find the need to do it at work after having a huge rush come in for coffee. The article explains that women...
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...Croomes 9/6/13 P1 My Ultimate Goal in Life “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.” A quote by Eric Thomas, from a motivational video I watched one day. Its senior year and time is ticking till graduation. As I transform into a mature adult, it is time for me to make decisions and set out what I want to be in life. My ambitions are to obtain an athletic scholarship for football, to help pave the way to becoming a civil engineer. It will be a bumpy ride along the way, but I can propel myself to achieve anything. I anticipate though sports such as football, can fund for my schooling to become a civil engineer. If I have a phenomenal upcoming season I can hopefully get recognized by athletic scouts and receive a full ride scholarship to a university. Though the off season I trained arduously to improve my talents as a player. Once I have reached my goal of becoming a student athlete in college, I will study a great deal to reach my main objective of becoming a civil engineer. Civil engineers deal with the designing of roads, bridges, and major highways. They construct the major structures around a city .The description of civil engineers, are to be fluid in mathematics and sciences. Therefore, I have enrolled in Calculus A.P. and Physics 2 A.P. These are rigorous courses to take, but both are the foundations of engineering. So why not get a step ahead of my competition? I might...
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...in their lives, and it saddens me that no one else has tried to help them or even listen to them. I have an amazing family. Everyone supports everything that I do if it makes me happy. My family has shaped me into who I am today. As a little girl, I was always told “do to one, as you would do to yourself.” So, I always did. My parents raised me to be respectful to people who respected me. They were with me through tough times and through good times, and I know they will be there for me in the future when I need them to be. Growing up around both my mom and my dad, I’ve learned a lot through what they do, and how they treat people. I believe thats the reason that I dream to help people. Another thing that has encouraged me to help people is my music. The music that I listen to gets me through some bad times when I don’t want to talk to anyone. If you listen to the lyrics, they actually mean something. Usually the lyrics talk about the bad times and things the writer has gone through. It talks about how you have to keep your head up even when times are hard. Music has made me feel like I’m not the only one who goes through bad times. It makes me feel like I fit in somewhere when, sometimes, I don’t know if I do. I want to help people, the way that music has helped me. I have been with my best friends since elementary school, so I've known them for...
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...A life without goals is really a life without purpose. That is why I have laid out my goals into four main categories of my life. My main 8 goals in life are in 4 categories, which include high school, college, my career, and my personal life. To begin with, the first category of my goals in life has to do with high school.One goal I have in high school is to play soccer on the Marina team for all four years I go to high school. This could help me by preparing me for college, not only to get on a college’s soccer team, but it also would teach me to work hard and not give up. To do this, I will have to constantly be ready to sacrifice my free time in order to be willing to train with my team. Moving on, I would like to graduate high school with at least a 3.5 GPA. While this will be...
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...In my day-to-day life, I would like to address and solve the problem that I face with time management. I have found that in the past time management has been a major issue, not only in my personal life but also academically and professional. I am starting a new school, have a job and have a family to take care of. I want to make an effort to give all my endeavors my all, in order to do this I would like to refine my time management skills. To develop time management skills I plan on researching a plan of action from the textbook. The information that I have found was in Chapter one. The textbook gives various steps to better time management such as setting goals for you. Goals are an important part of life, but it is even more important for my time management plan. I will be seeking steps that the book suggests for time management and determine which steps will be beneficial for particular part of my life that I will be evaluating. Not all the steps will be beneficial for me, but most will. I will determine which steps will be necessary to use, for example, how my personal life will affect my professional life or how my academic life may affect my personal life. I will begin to set goals for myself before determining a time management plan. I will set short term goals along with long term goals for the part of my life that I need to work on time management plan. I will start with my long term goals that have the largest scope and a longer timeline to achieve. The timeline for...
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...As I look at my life wondering how my life would have been if I had started setting goals in my life while I was in high school. To know what I wanted out of life, I have made this my personal responsibility to set goal in my life that what personal responsibility means to me. I wish my high school had prepared us more about setting goal and knowing what we want to be as we get older, but in an article there is one school that get teenager a worksheet where they set goals and give themselves a guideline on how they will reach their goal and they set a new goal every three months (Scarborough, Lewis, & Kulkarni, 2010). I have learned from “University of Phoenix” workshop is how important it is to set goal which can make your life less stressful, which made me to think that it is very important to set goals in my life and also my education. In another article that I have read there was a sentence in the article that stood out to me which says “When personal goals are written out, other gains are achieved.” (Morisano & Shore, 2010, p. 252) to me that mean as longs you write out what goal you want to achieve you can put yourself to it and make it happen. Without setting any goals in my life I felt as if I was going nowhere in life and I knew it was a time for a change for the better so I start setting goal in my life to accomplish. However, as I was getting older I never figured out what I really wanted out of life or even what I wanted to do. I just worked and went to school without...
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... Goals in My Life Everybody has dreams, wishes and goals and sooner or later they get closer and closer to achieve them with their hard work and dedication. Goals give you direction in all areas of your life Personal, Academic, Career. Goals give you a purpose in life. A reason to get up early in the morning and go to bed late at night. Goals will put passion into your life. The description of Goals in my life is based on my past goal, academic goal and personal goal. Life is not always be the same but it become more easier when we help each other. Something similar happened to my life when I had to made decision to help my partner. In 2013, I set a goal to get a LVN license and get enrolled in a LVN program. With family support and persistent hard work, in October 2014, I received my LVN license. It always make me feel proud that I achieved my goal. Learning continuously always help you aware of new technologies and education. My academic goal is to get admission in a BSN program. At present, I am taking pre requisite classes at TCC and my goal for this year is to get good grades so I can maintain my GPA 3.5 to get admission in BSN program. My personal goal which I made from my past goals or past knowledge always motivates me to do hard work. My personal goal is to be a successful student in college and a good wife, mother and a daughter. Why its important for me? Because, what I feel that my life is surrounded by such...
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...Development and Life Assessment March 31 2013 What are the goals in my life? As I got older I always set goal for myself. My number one Personal goal is to be a great Father to my son. Growing up I did not have the best role Models of what a good father was. A definition of a father to me was just a provider And that was it. I never got the love and nurture that I needed or any child deserved. But I was blessed And still blessed to have my brother in my life and even though he didn’t receive that love we Always tend to give that to each other. He was my role model and he was the definition of what a father Is and seeing how he is with his kids has showed and helped me to this day. My Professional goal is becoming a police officer and someday joining the FBI. I have Always wanted to become a person who’s willing to put his life on the line to help and Save others ever since I was young. When I was little I loved to play cops and robbers With my friends all day with our police toys it was my favorite thing to do after school. One of my biggest Reasons now to become a Police officer is mostly for my family and my community I want to be able to protect everyone as best as I can and give them a voice. There is so Much more I want to learn at Ashford so I can I apply it to my career as well as my goals. But to achieve that will be hard but if I keep my mind focus I know I will achieve it. By Reaching a GPA above 90 and Higher and maintaining it is my academic...
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...personal goals. This will insure academic success. Being self-motivated is the force that drives me to do things. It makes me hold myself accountable for academic success and personal success. Being self-motivated pushes me to achieve my academic goals and pushes me to finish a difficult task. It will help me be sharp and not be influenced by the wrong people, and to be open to positive learning. I will set higher goals than normal people because I am self-motivated. Being self-motivated it will give me the ability to do what needs to be done, without the power or influence from other people. It will give me the strength to complete a task, even when challenging without giving up or someone to encourage me. I will motivate myself not to give up on my academic success, and I will graduate from college. I always told myself that I wanted to go back to school and get a diploma, but I never motivated myself to go back to college. I was always working and taking care of my family, so I always found an excuse not to go back to school. Now that I motivated myself to go back to college, I will not look back and receive my diploma. Self-motivation will be an important factor in my academic success. Having time management is the key to having academic success. Without managing my time due to personal, and work life I cannot be successful in bettering my education. Time management will give me the ability to plan and control how I spend the hours in my day to effectively accomplish my goals...
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...My Career Goals I have two main reasons to set my career goals. Firstly, as I was a child, I always had had a dream that I wanted to grow up faster because I could choose what I wanted. I would like to make a decision by my own. After I grow up and to be considered as an adult, I found that making decision was not as easy as I thought because I have to give careful consideration to everything instead of only thinking about me. Secondly, everyone would go to work after he or she graduated from school because they have responsibilities to their own life. If they want a better life, they must work hard to support themselves. Based on these two reasons, I have decided three career goals of my life, including using my strengths to the work, balancing work and life and letting my family have better life. Firstly, using my strengths to the work is important to me. I studied environment science in my country. Because of my major, I worked in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as a facility engineer who is responsibility for wastewater treatment. The facility engineer use physical and chemical methods to treat wastewater to turn into clean water. I could use my professional knowledge to solve the problem in my work. However, I didn’t want to be only an engineer. Although I was happy to use my talent in my work, I want to make my career have different challenges; moreover, keeping working in the same position confines the development of my career. As...
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...growth. Some people can achieve these goals, but others have obstacles that come along the way in where their dreams can either change or diminish. Even though some goals/dreams do not come true I believe that we should never give up because who knows what can come along. My personal and professional goals at this time are to accomplish my Master’s degree and advance into the DNP program. Another personal goal is to get into one of the good hospitals in the city and work as a nurse with babies or Pediatrics. The third personal goal is to get married and have a family. These three goals are some of my main goals at this point in my life, especially to have a family, as I am at a point in my life that family becomes important. I know there will be some obstacles that will come through my life of pursing my goals, but with God, the support of my family, and my persistence I know that I can accomplish these goals. Reasons to Pursue Graduate Study Education is an important aspect in our lives. It gives us knowledge, skills, and personal growth so that we can be successful. My reasons for pursing a graduate study is for personal growth, to gain more knowledge in regard to my nursing career, and to advance in my career either as a leader, educator, or specialist. Education is a reason to purse a graduate study for my personal growth in order to improve myself. I believe that I am a good nurse, but I can become a better nurse and show my patients my knowledge enhancement with a higher...
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...Day-To-Day Life Time Management Lucretia Chadwick GEN/200 Robyann Musil August 8, 2011 In my day-to-day life, I would like to address and solve the problem that I face with time management. I have found that in the past time management has been a major issue, not only in my personal life but also academically and professional. I am starting a new school, have a job and have a family to take care of. I want to make an effort to give all my endeavors my all, in order to do this I would like to refine my time management skills. To develop time management skills I plan on researching a plan of action from the textbook. The information that I have found was in Chapter one. The textbook gives various steps to better time management such as setting goals for you. Goals are an important part of life, but it is even more important for my time management plan. I will be seeking steps that the book suggests for time management and determine which steps will be beneficial for particular part of my life that I will be evaluating. Not all the steps will be beneficial for me, but most will. I will determine which steps will be necessary to use, for example, how my personal life will affect my professional life or how my academic life may affect my personal life. I will begin to set goals for myself before determining a time management plan. I will set short term goals along with long term goals for the part of my life that I need to work on time management plan. I will start with...
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...in the restaurant industry for most of my life. I love the restaurant business, but it is very hard on my life and the schedule that I have to work does not allow me to spend much time with my daughter or socialize with others. In addition, the IT field is one that will always be in demand and offers almost unlimited growth potential. Two goals that I have set for myself are to lose 20-30 pounds in the next 3 months with exercise and diet, and to explore new and different techniques to help with my bi-polar condition. I have chosen these two goals for different reasons. My first goal deals with my overall physical health, which will also carry over to my mental health. I would like to lead a more active lifestyle, similar to what I have in the past when I was younger, which at this time I am not physically able to do. I have been advised by my doctor that I need to lower my cholesterol, so eating healthier will help accomplish this. In turn, by altering my physical health, this will have a great impact on my self-perception and help to change way of thinking. My second goal deals with bi-polar condition. It is something that I have struggled with all my life and has affected all aspects of my life. It has made it difficult for me to communicate my thoughts and feelings in appropriate ways. Two things that I would like to explore are meditation and Tai Chi. Both are proven to help with a chaotic mind. Two goals that I am setting for myself in this class...
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...Personal Responsibilities Personal Responsibilities to me personally is to continue my education for myself first, and second to better my family financially. I’m responsible for my own future, and whether or not I’m successful or not. No one else is responsible for how my life turns out for me, and only I can benefit from what I put in to my personal growth. I’m responsible to take the initiative to get out there to get what I need to achieve my goals, and better my situation. Before I can achieve my goals for anyone else’s approval of myself I have to do it for myself or I won’t see the task through to the end. When it’s a personal goal the reward takes on a whole different feeling, and meaning to you so that’s why I push myself to attain my degree, and to become successful along my journey. My personal responsibility is also my family, and the fate of their future. My children are my everything, and their future is also my job to see that they become successful adults out in the world. It’s my responsibility to care for them, and to provide them with the tools they need to make it in life. It’s my responsibility to better my family, and also to show my children that without their education life will be a struggle. I can’t just say these things to them without showing them by leading by example, and achieving my goal in attaining my degree. In starting this process it is wise to make a list of those parts of our lives that are inconsistent with the lifestyle that we truly...
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